Oak Ridge Jordan Lake New Development Rules
Oak Ridge, plus Durham, Cary and the other Triangle jurisdictions in the Jordan Lake basin adopted the New Development rule despite the legislature’s suspension of it 6 till 2019 or…
GSO Downtown(?) Good Repair Ordinance Conversation Resurrected
It’s back! In mid-December 2015 GSO Council’s Infrastructure Committee revived the on-again/off-again discussion of strengthening the Downtown Good Repair Ordinance, and applying it to more/all areas of the city. It’s…
HP Rental Unit Inspections/ Housing Code Enforcement
At the February 10 Community Housing and Neighborhood Development Council Committee meeting, chaired by Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Golden, council members discussed creating a rental unit inspection program. The purpose…
Guilford County Environmental Health Director Search
New Environmental Health Manager David Foust is now in place, having risen from the restaurant inspection side of that department. We had a very good introductory meeting with him and…
GSO/HP/Guilford County Historic Economic Development Cooperation
On November 20th Greensboro and High Point City Councils and Guilford County Commissioners will meet jointly to vote on a proposal for historic, official collaboration on Economic Development! HP and…
GSO Quarterly Meeting
The next meeting between TREBIC members and staff will be scheduled in June. Please let Judy know if any critical issues arise in the interim.
Look Out for Local Government Bonding Limits Loophole
2013 legislation limits local governments Performance Guarantees to maximum 125% of “reasonably estimated cost of completion at the time the performance guarantee is issued” or renewed. Beware, and let us…
Oak Ridge Future Land Use Plan Update
Town Council expanded the Commercial district beyond the committee draft, and adopted this final portion of the FLUP February 4th, thereby completing this FLUP Update. The town will now turn…
Jordan Lake Rules
You will remember that in the 2013 legislature we got ‘all the Rules that had not already been implemented” suspended for till 2016, and a pilot project was funded to…
GSO Upfront Annexation Fee Discussions
TREBIC and GSO staff have met and discussed the possibility of a more equitable payment schedule. Current policy requires payment of all fees upon application for annexation resulting in a…
